This is so important. Everyone who is in touch with the blogosphere will know about the Oil-for-Food scandal that's unfolding, and most will know that there is an investigation under way that is even now striving to grow teeth (against the grinding opposition of at least one of the You-Know-Who powers) through attaining the status of a Resolution-backed enquiry, as Roger Simon chronicles. The first link however is to an article by Claudia Rosett, who has pioneered a lot of the journalism that has brought the matter to the amount of light it has so far seen. Her latest work demonstrates how much more light we need to bring it to. It must be scrutinised by the public through the internet. It must be raised again and again until big media, especially august big media such as the BBC, cannot avoid some transparent coverage. I, and as many people who consider they have a stake in this, must become expert in the detail of the UN-Oil-for-Food-for-Terror? scandal, so as to curtail the complicity with terrorism that exists in high places.

I am reminded of a passage of Wretchard's which put things into perspective:
America is potentially the most powerful media power on earth but it is not at war in Iraq, except with itself. The real tragedy in Iraq is not so much that men die but that we as a society have left them to die without even naming those with whom we are at war.

Most of this via that Dumbledore, alright, Blogfather of the Internet, Glenn Instapundit Reynolds.